PNM*.
*T OROBLIS DB UT.
A keen wind gleam*. and all th# ground
In bare Mid oh*ppd with hitter ooid ;
Th# rntu ar# iron ; fl*h ar# found
In io# #ocas*d aa in a mold j
Now frozen hill-top* aoh# with pain,
And ahudder* tremble down aach *hy
Dsap r notlot burro wing in th# plain ;
Now mark the *ky.
Kh# roftlr pall* a downy roll
lV>for# ber clear Modn*a faoa i
Thi*. falling *low, abroad doth trail
Aoro** the wold a feather? trace
beneath whose fold* lb* moaning aarth
A*irop him tr#teh#a droamlly.
Forgot both pain and *ummr'* mirth ,
S.xsthed by th# aky.
—Sfntmrr't .V imiik
The Old Sampler.
t>at of the way in a corner
Of our dear old attic room.
Where bunch,> of herb* from th* hllliude
Shake ever a faint perfutn*, ,
An oaken client i* standmg
With h**p and padlock and key,
Strong a> the ban 1> that made tt
Ou the other aide of the Sea.
When the winter day* are dreary
And we're out of heart with life,
Of it* crowding care* -wcry
And *iek of it* re*tie** tnfe.
We take a le**on in patience
Prom the attic corner dim.
Where the che*t tUI hold* it* tmanure*.
A aariler. f uthful and sruu.
Robe* of an antupie fashion,
Idnen and lac and *tlk,
lliat tun# ha* Unto! with natfron.
Though ot.ee they were white a* aitlk.
Womlcrful Uabx garnit-nU
Itrvadervd with loving ear* -
Ity flngvr* that felt the plea*ure,
A* they wrought the ruffle* fair.
A ►word with the revl rust on it.
That dashed tit the battle tide.
When from Islington to V rktowu
Sorely men's ouU vrt re tried.
A primed chapeau aud a buckle,
A'd many a relic Sue;
And *ll by Used the sampler. •
Framed in with ts-rry and Tine,
Faded, the senate of cauras.
And duu i* the silken thread
Rut I ihiui of the white hand* dimpled.
And a childish sunny head.
I'nr, here U a cross, and m teut-atiU-h,
In a wreath of berrv and vine ;
She worked i", a hundred year* ago.
*' Elizabeth, aged nine."
la. and out, in 'he sunahine
The llttie needle dashed ;
And in and out on the raiuy day
When the merry drops down plaahevi.
As close she sat by her mother -
The little Puritan mud.
And did her piece on the sampler.
While the other e ihlrcn played.
You are ssfe in the beautiful heaven,
" Elisabeth. aged nine
Hut. brfor* you went, you had trouble*
Sharper thru any of mine ;
Oh the gold hair turned with sorrow
White a* the drifted snow.
And your tears dropped here where I'm
standing—
On this rery plumed chape* u_
When you put it awy, its wearer
Would never need it more,
rt a sword-thrust learning the seerets,
God keeps on yonder shore ;
And you wore your grief like glory,
You could not yield supine.
Who wrought in your patient childhood,
"Elizabeth, aged nine."
Out of the way in a corner,
With hasp and padlock and key.
Stands the oaken chest of my fathers.
That cams from over the sea ;
And the hillside herbs above it
Shake odors fragrant and fine.
And here on its lid is a garland.
To "Elisabeth. aged nine."
For love is of the immortal,
And patience is sublime,
And trouble a thing of every day
And touching every time ;
And childhood, sweet and snnuy.
And womanly, truth and grace.
Ever can light life's darkness.
And bless earth's loneliest place.
—Mrt. M. E. ."idsjsw.
A D3MESTIC CHAPTER.
It waa a favorite expression of Mrs
Msrne's, •• As long as a child of mine
lives with me, no matter if she is as big
as the house, she has got to mind me."
Bat when girls have become perfectly
indifferent to snch threadbare assertions
an<l are really too old to snbtnit to have
their ear*boxei. talk aa yon may, what
is f\ mother to do ?
Very much in this predicament was
Mr*. Mayne with her ilanghters, fonr
good-looking, go.td-frtr-nothing, charm
ing girls, who, afflicted with the mania
for pet names, only too common now-a
•lays, had transformed themselves from
olsin Amanda, Cecelia, Esther and
Margaret into Amie, Ceci, Essie HHJ
Midge. Then to complete the family
.•irde, there was Oliver, a half-grown
!ad with a fnil-grown grievance. To be
alternately snubHed an<l petted, cojoled
and domineered over bv liis sprightly
sisters, who were all older than himself,
was bad enongli; bnt when his mother
not only disciplined him rigidly for his
own offenses, bnt because those nancy
jades ooalln't be conquered. would
make hitn suffer for it, that was alto
gether tK> mnch. Hail Oliver Mayne
been of a philoeophic torn of mind, he
might have seen in all this tagging a
sort of retributive jnstice for the woes
of the fair s< x under the d"ap >tism of
man, bat alas ! he was not ; so he read
"Mr. Midshipman Easy," and, when
lie dared, played truant and prowled
aroand the water-front with ideas in his
head.
Yet in spite of all her inconsistencies,
Ms. Mavne was a mother among a thou
sand. What wonld she not do to push
her daughters on in society ? So, while
they Were brought up as much like fine
ladies as was possible with her limited
means, she was cook, chambermaid ami
seamstress by tnrns ; they gave their
best energies to the glide, the cream of
their gotd nature to gentlemen friends,
an 1 imbibing a taste for dress and fash
on well nigh Insatiate.
To snch a length had this motherly
self sacrifice been carried that there
had been months in Mrs. Mayne's life
when Sunday was no more a day of rest
than any other;and while the girls were
rustling into church with their stylish
suits she was aa likely as not shut up at
home, sewing away for dear life on some
finery for them. All this she would do
uncomplainingly, but of little brief au
thority she was extremely tenacious,
and liked to be consulted \iy her girls
on even the most trivia' occasions.
As old as the human race, is the liking
to have one's own way; so with these
young rebellions spirits, nothing was so
trying as t/> be obliged to say, "May I ?'*
One Saturday, toward noon, the girls
were in the parlor, under pretense of
ousting and setting to rights that most
impor'ant room.
"I tell you what it is," said Midge,
yawning most prodigiously, for she hail
been out late to the theater the night
before,"! think my plan is the best;
just go on and make yonr arrangements
without saying a word to ma. She will
be angry, bnt what can she do ?"
" Well, I don't know bnt what yon
are right, Midge," returned Amie,
musingly.
" Of course," asserted Cecil, "since it
is for your sake that we >ire hatching up
this plot, Amie, you will have to shoul
der the blame; but then we will back
you—won't we girls?"
Then they went up stairs, and ia half
an hour these four had written, sealed
and addressed twenty-five or thirty
dainty letter notes.
"Now," said Cecil, moistening the
last stamp, and affixing it with bnsiness
likc oelerity, " all we have to do is to
get Oliver to post them. Yon go and
call him Ee."
" Where is he?"
FUKD. KUHTZ, Ktliior and Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
"Oh, out in the laek yard sawing
wood, 1 gacsH," said (Veil, c sconcing
herself comfortably iu a ciiair with a
book.
Great reader* of romance they all
were.
When there was no immediate diver
uou offered in the way of promenade or
hall, owe or the other t>f Uie sinters had
been known to pass a whole lay at a
time, oblivion* of everything except the
deed* or misdeed# of aotne hero of the
Strathmore type,
" I*>ok here. OUT," aatd Atuie, sweet
ly, wheu her brother had eome up into
her room: " I want you to do something
for me, like a dear gixxl fellow."
" Whut'a up now ?" axked Oliver, the
more gruffly, xoau*e he knew hia aiater
hail a motive for pleaamg him.
j " 1 want you to post these letter* for
j me without letting ma know."
" Why don't you pout 'em yourself ?"
drawleil he, nngraciotialy, turning om
en velope after another to study the ad
dressee.
"O, you know well enough, OUy ; it
doe* uot do (or youug ladies to run out
on the street without fixing up now, it
dou't matter about boys a bit.
"That's what yon always say," re
turned her brother, remembering the
many timea he had been left out at the
ellnor because iu Mrs. Mayne's system
of household eoonomv the girls lisvl
always to be aupplied first.
Hut Amie kuew well how to avert any
unpleas iut argument when it waa politic
to do ao.
"Never mind—see here," said she,
slipping a small piece of money into Ins
hand.
He became perceptibly bettor nature*!
on the moment.
1 "Say, Amie,** he cried, still intent on
the envelopes, " I'll bet my head von
are doing all this on aoxract of Mr
Pick-"
He got no further, for his sister, tam
ing red as a rot*', hustled him out of the
door. How had he spied that name,
when she had put Mr. IVkeus' invita
tion iu the very middle of the packet ?
Unconscious of these mschiuatious,
Mrs. Mayue was drudging away in the
kitchen with tliot intense ataairptmn in
her work wliich denote* the tli<>roiig)>
manager.
Amie found her over the irouinc
table.
" Mother," said she, " I should like
very ranch to hav? some company hen
next Wednesday evening."
Mr*. Mayne. who had l>een admiring
tlie petticoat just finished so satiofacton
ly and huug on the clothes-horse to air,
turned alrotit sharp! v.
" Amanda," she ex:-laimed, " you arc
a fool."
Whatever luxiirv Mr<. Mayne denied
herself, she certainly did not deny her
self the luxury ot plain speech.
"Urn sure I dou't know what you mean
by that, ma."
",I tell you it is not to be*thought of
—not for one moment," replied her
raoxher, punctuating her sentences with
vigorous thum|>s of the smoothing iron.
"I've got my plans all laid out for next
week."
" What is there to do on Wednesday ?"
"Mrs. Nesbett As coining to cut and
baste yonr polonaises, and I want to get
a g.-si day's woik out of her; so you see,
Wednesday evening, of all evenings, ia
the worst for ootnpsny."
Amie naturally wished now, that she
had not been so hasty about sending the
invitations. However, regrets were use
less, so she said:
" But, mother, why need that inter
fere—"
Her mother cut her short pereinp
torilv.
"llon't argue with me, Amanda. Go
along and get your worsted work, snd
tell Essie I want to hear her practicing
nght away."
Strange to say. Amie wasn't so cour
ageous a* usual ; so she idled about
I without reuewiug the forbidden topic,
and having looked into the small square
mirror hanging by the sink more from
: hsV*it than from inclination, thought
" What * hideous complexion this glass
gives me," and walke 1 out of th t room.
The moment she sbowe I her face to
iher sisters, they knew she wan disap
pointed. After she had detailed her
conversation with ber mother, and had
l>eeii rated for not bring bolder, Midge
cried spiritedly ;
" Never mind, Ami, I'll go right out
and see ma myself."
She was the m >*t demonstrative of
the family, was Midge ; so she stole up
behind her mother an i slipped her una
around that ample wsist. Mrs. Mayne
was too warm and buv to be in a tend
ermood, so, without turning alxrat she
1 said ;
" That's yoti, Margaret, I know yonr
tricks ; go along."
"Yon look so tired, ma; do Ift me
help von."
" You cau't do this—go along."
"O, yon never think anylxxlv nan do
anything bt vonrself!" laughed
Midge.
" Because it is so much easier to do a
thing than to bother showing somebody
else."
Nevertheless Midge e>axe<l so admira
! bly that her m- ther left ber work and
sat down by the table. A handy
stroke or two of the iron having put
Mrs. Mayne into good humor, Midge,
the sly rogue, tiegnn.
" Bay, ma, dear, why won't you let ns
have company on Wednesday evening?"
" Well, upon my word, you g'fls are
ridiculous. I thought I settled all that
with Nmanda."
" Yes; but ma, dear, yon settled it the
wrong way to suit us."
" 0,1 know yonr tricks, Margaret, and
yon are all alike. Yon make up yonr
kninds to anything, and there ia no get
the notion out of your heads."
" X w, mother dear, if we, are self
willed," exclaimed Midge, roguishly,
i " how did we possibly become so? We
couldn't inherit it from yon. of course.
Why on n't yon have Mrs. Nesbett here
aome other day ?"
" Why can't Amanda have ber com
pany some other evening?"
" Well," replied Midge, slanting her
bead with an air of being very critical
over her work as ahe bore hard acroea a
rough place, " because she luis already
sent ont the invitations."
Mrs. Mayne's temper was instantly all
ablase.
"Get away from there, Margaret,"
she cried, " yon are pulling that bias
s&am the wrong way; give me the iron."
But Midge wan determined not to let
the main question drop,
"Yon needn't worry about baking,"
said she, mildly, " because it would le
so easy to order a few things from the
confectioner."
" Don't let me hear another word
abont it, 1 tell yon," retorted her
mother, in high dudgeon. " And yon
may tell Amanda for me that whoever
sets his foot inside the front door on
Wednesday evening, if he was the Pope
of Rome, would be insulted."
Notwithstanding this edict, and the
fact that Mrs. Mayne's pleasure had not
been softened meanwhile by entreaties,
: tears or tempers, at precisely seven
o'clock on Wednesday evening the girls
had all gone up stairs to dre-s.
' They occupied two small rooms open
i ing into esch other, end were obliged to
: share many things in common. Jnst
imagine four girls forced to take turns
i at one mirror ! Theu add to this the nn
l accountable way which ruffles, skirts
and ribbons have of getting mixed op,
and yon will not be surprised that there
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
was *otne wrnngiivg during the interest
iug priHva* of toilet makiug. However,
there are a uue thing* which lU'uat l>e
viewed from a purely fuminme stand
point.
Of all the aiatera, A:uie'# temper
seemed ti be the lu-iat rasped on that
eventful t\ > lung. Everything went
wrong Willi her,
" My gtvahmaa, Kmii Mayuel" .-aid
she, scrambling breathlessly arouud,
poking under chair*, the Iwal. the bu
reau, ami even looking half demented
luto her bandliox, " f do lieheve you
have got oil one of mi Oxford tie* ty
nuatake."
•' No ancli thing, Anne," replied the
' Matin tvldi ecMsi, aho wa* at that moment
ailbjeettug her eye-laxhesto* mysterious
treatment which new*Mi*ted the making
up of a horrible face, " mine ai-ra to
gether m the shoe-bag."
"Come, do get out of the way, Ea,"
' another voice Midges -was hoard
complaining. " I want the glass to do
my hair ; you've been long enough put
ting oil that black stuff to make yunroelf
into u Uott utut."
" What I want to know, girls," said
Atuie, who had found her shoe in the
work-basket, and was now struggling
with an obstinate lacing, "is whether
any of you had sanae enough to light the
gas in the hall ?"
" Xobodv in this family pretends to
be smart \>ut you, Auiie," respouded
Cecil, saucily.
"Then go down stairs this iuataut and
see to it," exclaimed the elilest sister,
peremptorily. " Here I am only half
dressed, and every time there is the
least noise it gives uie stteli a start ex
jxvting to hear the Itell. 1 have a sort
of feeliug that Mr. IVkeus will be here
early."
Cecil, who hated to he ordered about,
scolded ;
•' Oh, bother yon and your old Pick
ens!" but she threw a shawl about her
and went hastily down stairs.
" I suppose ma wouldn't go to the
door," eontiuued Atuie, "if the bell
should ring forty times before any of us
ate ready—here. Midge, hold these
crimping irons iu the gas for me."
In spite of all these wearying annoy
ances. could tllVre have been jmssiblv a
sweeter, more artless face thau Atule's
when she had coaxed the little tendril*
of hair low down ujx)n her foreSt ad ;
had kuotted her silken tie aud turned
to go down stairs?
She was iu gocxl season after ail, and
had full five minutes quite to herself in
which to collect her thoughts. "Yea,"
said she, " I have made up my amid.
It may not be so romantic and all that,
but 1 am sure plenty of girls would jump
at the chance. . I must tell him K-fore
hand that he must not expect me to give
up the glide and everything —" here
the bell jieale 1 tbruu-th the house, titid
as Anxie ran hastly to the front do-r her
heart seemed to fiutter in her throat.
Her first guest w as,as she had surmised,
Pickens.
He stepped into the hall, and as he
hung his hat and overcoat upon the rack
he glanced inquiringly al*ut. None of
these roguish sisters were in sight— ouly
Anne, l'-oking not unlike a dewy rose
had. He was a gentlemanly person of
fifty or thereabouts, with beard and
hair well grin led ; nor iu his strongly
m irked features did one discover the
least hint of a susceptibility to rounded
curves aud bright e yea —yet these had
taken him captive.
One glimpse of his face and Amie
knew intuitively that a decisive moment
in her life had come. Nor was she
mistaken, for Mr. Piokormtook the white
hand she slyly gave him, aud held it
close to his immaculate shirt-front sud
whispered : " Mine, Amie
The ridiculous liell sou tiding once more
with startling empliasis, cut short the
first kiss.
Ijater in the evenlug, rilien the parlor
wus all alive with vivacious conversation
aud music, wheu everybo.lv seemed to
lie entert lining everybody, one #ft-r
another, the four girls slipjied out into
the kitchen, whither Mrs. Mayne had
withdrawn herself directly after dinner.
Amie was tne last to go. She knew
that her aistcra intended making a
united appeal to their mother to forego
her angry resistance, and to assist them
in pleasing their gnoats; and *h
thought, "I am anre ma will be melted
at once, if I can whiaper two or three
worda in her ear." A
Unfortunately, when Amie got to the
hall door she heard loud voices in angry
discussion.
From parlor to kitchen is always a
sharp transit ion ; but was there ever so
. marked a contrast between the two
rooms as in Mrs. Mayne's house that
night?
"There's no doing anything with
ma," said Ccci ; " she's just as obstinate
as the Sphinx."
" Yes ; everybody lias been asking foi
'her," said Midge, ponting, "and won
dering why she didn't come into the
parlor."
"Sobesnre—and I would have told
them she is sick, but likens not if I did,
she would come popping in the next
minute, saving that she never felt lictter
in her life," added Essie.
Then Mrs. Mayue broke iu angrily
"Don't want another word from you,
Esther. I've caught von at yotir tricks,
miss. Didn't you flunk I had any eyes
in ray head when von were giv.ng Oliver
monev in the hall t enigld ? '
" Well, suppose I did," retorted Essie,
indignantly; " I can't see people coming
Ito the In use and go away without a
crumb to eat."
"That's just what they will do," said
the mother, rapping her knuckles furi
ously on the table at which she had lawn
sitting with her sewing. " Didn t Itell
yon that there shouldn't l>e any supper
b -night ? And *as for tampering with
your brother, and making him asdis
' i.lifldient as yon girls are, that I will not
permit!"
" You don't mean to say," exclaimed
Essie, nearly inarticulate with anger,
" that you stopped Oliver from going
out ?"
" That's just what I do mean to say."
Mrs. Msvne's temper had now risen to
such a pitch of exasperation that, not
withstanding the fact that since her en
trance Amie hod not censed to pour gen
tle pleadings into her mother's ear, the
good la iy felt she must have ivitne fuller
vent than mere words. Her finger itch
ed to box somebody's ears.
Just as she i. lanced about from one to
the other, poor unfortunate Oliver, who
had bean sitting on the lounge behind
his mother, in swinging his foot, acci
dentally kicked his mother's chair.
Quick us n flash she wheeled about on
him and gave him a sound slap.
" I ain't doin' nothin'," he oriel,
sharply, clappiDg to his geography to
hide the ' Claude Duval' he had been
slyly reading. " You needn't take it
out on me because you are mad at the
" Things have come to such a pass,
said Mrs. Mayne, bitterly, "that! never
expect to take any jieoce or comfort in
this house any more
Just then there came a gentle rapping
at the hall door.
The girla' hearts stood still. Was
i | some guest coming out to be insulted ?
was their mother going to shame them
forever ?
i " Let me in," said a cheerful voiee at
> i the sonnd of which poor Amie's breath
i came quickly. O, horrible! If her
mother should be disagreeable to Mr.
i | Pickens 1
, I Neither Amie nor her sisters need
) j have feared. Human nature is many
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r
aided ; it linn its curious instincts.
Angry as a mother may l>e with her own
fich and Elood, she cannot tiauut their
failings before o'her |M*>ple'a eyes.
Hitter a* thv pill wa*. Mrs. Mnvue
awalloWvd her wrath whole and walked
' to the door with a *milmg face.
"Why, Mr. Pickens ! is that you?"
aiud she, giving hiiu her hand.
" 1 whs iifmnl you were going to be
invisible all the evening," replied Mr.
Pickeua, " ami 1 utade Iml.l to hunt you
—besides, 1 want my Auae.'
A sliiN'k went through Mrs. Mayne's
triune. Mr. I'ickeua had told the whole
story bluntly in those few worda, ami
• magically a* a uictnri' sponged front n
1 slate Welti Amie'e Shortcomings wiped
i froiu the tablet of Ittr mother's reiuem
: bruuce,
"I'm unit*," said she. tremulously,
" I couldn't wish her i belter choice,
Mr. lhckens; aml if she makes as g>*sl
a wife nit she linn Iteeu U dsilgliter, Toil
> will lie i happa man."
The liltlt) disturbance w all forgot
' ten. The girls weut lm'k into the
purler radiant, while Mrs. May lie
! dropjied a few salt tears as she brewed
' some delicious coffee for her itaughters'
guests, and Oliver, harboring no resent,
uient, sptsl to the baker's a* fast as his
' • legs could carry him.
It was not until the guenta were all
1 gone, and the girls were alone together,
that Ainie received her sisters' congratu
lation s.
The gaa flared over the bureau, piled
with ribbons and crim]>iug-piua; braee
' lets aud shresls of ttiru curling papers; a
I fringe of silken frit ties had fallen
aor>wt tlie powder t*>x; then there were
rulfles, brushes, cosmetics and comtst.
Hut nobody minded the disorder in the
least.
Perched oil one bed, arrayed in the
" prettiest uight-g< was under the sun."
were the four girls, talking and talking,
in spite of the lateness of the turnr.
" There w.ll lie only three of us t.
squabble Kir the looking-glass,'" said
Midge, sighing.
" And I su;'|sse we will have to go on
paying for nse it that is eaten, and clothes
that are worn out, while Amie will have
no end of lovely dresses and Ism net a,"
ad-leal Essie.
" You havt n't guessed the nicest thing
of all that 1 shall have," laughed Amir.
" Oh, I know," exclaimed Oeci, tri
nmphantly; " yonr own way!"
The Earliest Printing t ngraii d llrirk*.
Engraved stamps are of very early
origin, and may be regarded :.s the tiist
pr>c,"ss of every method of prmting.
Three thousand yora ago tie* engraving
of forms for impressing seals ami ooiu
was practiced with a skill scarcely anr
pass<d in them* modem days. There are
ooiua which were made in the days of
Pharaohs, stamped in relief as weft de
fined as the pieces in circulation to-day.
Tim first printing a* uch—in the his
tory of the world wto probably upon
bricks. An illustration represents a
. brick taken from the nuns of ancient
lUbvi u, and is really a piece of the
literature of tlrat far awwv time, which
probably could have ooei. prwrvisl in
no other form ao well. The Inters or
words arc placed 111 parallel rows, se|ia
rstesl bv linns, and are no doubt intend
ed to be read from top to bottom.
In old Egypt ineks were made by a
method of stamping, t>ut not o elstsir
ately as in Assyria. We have iteen able
to procure cuts showing the face and
buck of an old Egyptiau stamp, found
in a tomb of The!***, which was probably
used in " printing " brick* iu Hi >*o
sarly ilays <f the world's history. This
stamp is about five tuclies l-mg, two end
a half inches wide and lialf an inch
thick, with an arched handle. Tie
characters arc eugruved into tiie face of
the wood, so that the imprefso ai on the
clay wouhl show the letlcrsor characters
in 'relief, and have been trauslate-l,
"AmrnopA, tfhfvii of truth." We
have it stated by sins authorities that
Amenoph was n ruler of Egypt at the
time of the exodns of the children of
land.
Compared with moJem typography
. tins method of printing on clay was
crude and imjierfeot in the extreme.
How ia*y it would hnve been to have
coated the stump with i*>k and impreaaed
it upon paper ; but alaa, there were yet
discovered neither ink nor paper, and
instead of this practice being improved
and developed, it grsduallv fell into
disuse, and has been almost wholly
neglected for more than tweuty-tlve linn
dmi years, in the very land where it
originated. M<M Printer'* t/ntdr.
How Much To harm 1
Tli entire mass of tobacco which is
annually consumed ui smoking, snuffing
and in chewing• si the earth,is 4,(100,0k>,-
<H)O jioniida-- msnifestlv too high an esti
mate fur from 1.2iX),000,0<J0 u> 1,500,-
OtWI.OOiI of iuhlthitnnta. Let us take the
half as the more probable, and let us
suppo-e the t.ibaeco leaves transformed
into roll tolsieco. tobacco scrjM-nt is
mskd which, with a diameter of two
inches, nml following the direction of
the equator, could wind itself around
the earth thirty time*. Let us supp'ee
tfiat the tobacco is formed into tablets
similar to the chocolate tablets, and
which, indeed, is the shntM* which the
chewing tobacco of sailors takes, and
we have a onlosaal pile worthy of beiug
]dived tieside the third largest of the
pyramids of, Gizeh, that of tho Myker
itios, nml as massive ami high as lliat
old regal edifice. Let tis grind all tlie
tobacco into snuff, and lot us pictnre to
ourselves the sad case that an evil equi
noctial wind, one fine morning, blows
the snuff over the ocean, and showers it
on one of our German states, we are
, eertsin more than one of the Lilliputian
stab-s would have much difficulty in
recovering its existence by shoveling
away the snnff. loliaren Plant.
Absent Minded.
A letter from Sew Preston, Gonn., to
the Litchfield Knyairtr, contains this
anecdote: A man who had been sort
ing tobsceo for one of bis neigiilmrs,
stopped at one of the stores on Ins way
from work and purchased s pnir of shoes.
He tlircadad liis dinner-pail upon his
srro, took the shoes in the same hand,
and with the other thrust deep in his
breeches' pocket, started lor home.
Having got opposite L)r. Ed's he missed
his dinner-pail, and, thinking he had
left it ai the store, back he went for it.
A he went through the door it swung
to, and hit the pail strung on bis arm.
His only ejaculation was. "Thunder! I
thought I left it!" He's tho same man
who took his watch to New Mil ford to
le repaired and two days afterward
found it in bis vest pocket.
Her Kronen}.
Tlie dried apple of to-day has a hun
dred yards the start of tb dried apple
of ten years ago, but yet all people nre
not wiibng to admit it. A Woodward
avenue grocer was yesterday tryiug to
induce* woman to buy a three-pound
: package, instead of half a bushel of
green apples, telling her that she would
i | save money bv the operation.
" Yes I might fsve money, and again
i I mightn't," she noised.
" I know you would," he urged.
" But if I took home dried apples in
stead of green, there would le no
r ' parings for the children and no cores tar
my husband to shew on during the long
evening. And there's the worm-holes
I —they're awful nioe for my canaries."
■ I She look green applet. —Free Pratt.
UKKATKN lit IX THE TELEPHONE..
The lavrailoa at ** Ailaaia lias *•*■*•
Trlrl-Sault 11, TraMMlllrd Mini I'haai
arapblraMi MraUtrrrS.
Hie At Inula (Gii.) fbn tlitutioM haa
tin- following account of an invention
which it attribute* *•• n rcanleut of that
city : "We are not p. ....ittedat this time
to ntate *|hm tlciillv ull the |Miiuts lie
huigmg to the invention in question,
hut we can say that an examination of
of the working model leaven no rootu
to doubt of it* suceesaful application for
the |>nr|K>*c desigued. The geiitleuian
of whom we iqicak haa carefnllv watched
the progrtsntlig luoveiuenta bercUftre
lueuljolied, ttUil from them he conceived
the combination (or that in what he
claims his instrument to be) whereby
sound could 1m- telephouicall V trailS
ttul ted and phoiiograpically registered
m visible signs capable of eertain prompt
trannlutioii into written language. Tin*
seems, ut fir->t glance, an aliuoMt incon
ceivable achievement, but a slight ref
eramie to the uiethovl employeil should
di*|ie! all dotibta. 'The Telephono
graph' is the name of the uew combina
tion, and it* |HHuts are us follows :
" First —Telephone, ** in common
use, for the transmission of the sounds
of the speaker's voiee,
"ttocond A telegraph instrument of
the same nature a* the priutllig tale
graph, whereby the sounds may Is*
register.*! by pliomgrapUkc signs upon
slqw of pa|ier, as iu the printing tele
graph.
" Third—A delicate and ingenious
instrument which mdn-ates the olighta-st
or loud<*>t I me*, aud pr>sluce currenta
tiist ojwui the jiraove key that would
tudicate them.
" Ftiurth- Au alpha)wt of sounds ar
ranged ujK.u phonographic principles,
by which every combination of sounds
and indication in Luguagc can Is* fully
indiCntcl.
" The entire machine is electric and
automatic, and the phouogruphic combi
nation*, made iu much nuialler shiqw
than iu the most primary stage* of
photography, are easily made by elec
tric action and a* rapidly an the sounds
are uttered. The main value of tin* in
strument i* that it will do away with all
nec.-** - .ty for telegraph operators, re
quiring only one man in au office, and
aliohsliiiig a vast amount of red-taiwism
in the U-legrapby. Its greatest advant
age, however, will tie to the n*wspa|er
pr<o* of the country, for with one of
the*e nimple lustrumenta in the compos
ing roni copy from the instrument can
be furnished to the printers, whose only
previous preparation will be a day's
study of the phouographic alphntwt in
order to Ihvouii' familiar wttli the signs.
Once famitiar to the punter, he can take
a pier* of copy and set it up in type as
readily a* reprint. A perron to whotn
n in-<**oge is mlilrrwnol, undcrstaiiditfg
the signs, could read it as easily as
though printed in Roman type. The
instrument is la-rag rapidly perfected,
and the inventor has no doul>t of its
gn- it snccas and usefnlm-aa in the
world's affair*."
tnccdotcs of Yirtar Emmanuel.
An English paper says: Of Vic
tor Emmanuel, as of all |x>ptilar
king*, great many anecdote* arc told.
People take u interest in every, even
the digbtc*t, peculiarity of such sover
eign*. ami the late king of Italy hod a
gre t many jiectiliarittes. He never ate
iu public, for initauce He aat ont all
slat- dinners, at wh'ch lie sa obliged
to be present, with hi* h*nd* resting an
the lull of hi* sword, without tasting
anything, except, perliaj**, aoine trifie
at d-saert. Hi* long and superabundant
moustache# were the cause of this nb
atcmk>n*nea*. ITe ma le up for it, h< *-
ever, tn private, when he could biud Up
hts obstructive* on each side of lua face
without Ixvoming a public lsugtiing
stock. H<* wsn uo gourmand, and lua
contempt for tlie art of cookery wa* a
oouriaut thorn in the side of the court
cooks which, for them, deprived life of
one tiKtf of its attractions. Nothing
more depresses an artist than not to lx>
appreciated at the value he seta u|xm
him (elf. Victor Emmanuel's meal con
sisted of meat dishes, and of tlioec he
preferred game shot bv himself. Fnut
and natir* wine completed the repast.
In the Palazzo I'ltti, in Florence, he al
lowed the state apartment* to remain
empty, and installed himself in a couple
of r>mia on the ground flr*r. He did
the same at Rome in the Quinnal,
where the whole palace was at the entire
diap-isal of inquisittve stranger*. In
spit" of hia well-known physical brav
erv, he had b xu|>eratitious dread of the
Quirmal, the former dwelliug of the
jxqx-s. The first night after his govern
men. wa* trati*fcrrivl to Rome be dared
not sleep in the palace, but went to pa**
the night inotyaita with a friend in the
conntry. H *mok<l half-penny cigars,
tlawc cigars which the Italians pretend
pois m the air of their country. They
have l>ecn named afier their greatest
minister, Cavour. The king was fre
quently seen in the street# of Turin,
Milan, Genoa, Florence and Rome. As
it whs understood that he wa* out iw
••oguito no oue seemed to recoguize
him, tlmngh every child knew him quite
well. Like Haronn AI IWchul. he went
by night aud alone into tlie p<x>re*t and
mo*t distant quarters of Turin. There
he heard with his own ear* the opinions
of Irs enbject#, and admired unhindered
the beauty of eveu his moat lowly coun
trywomen. We cannot close three rem
inis<-ences without giving tba atory of
the English correspondent who some
vests ago went prowling around the
Palazzo I'itti, anxious to get into the
king's anartinent* *nd write a descrip
tion of them. At last he went up to a
gentleman who waa leaning against a
aide door smoking, and asked him how
he might lie able to get a Bight of the
king's rooms. "C-me in," said the
gentleman, who showed aud explained
everything to him. He then invited him
to ait down, offered lnm a cigar, and on
his departure aliook hands warmly with
him. It was onlv tome time after he
had left the palace that it dawned upon
tlie correspondent that the kin(j himself
had been his guide and entertainer.
Too Old
Not long since tlie enterprising man
ager of a theater cdHed upon Meis
aonier, the faiiona French artist, and
asked him to paint a drop-soene for hia
theatre, and name his own terms.
" Yoti have seen my pictures, then ?"
naked Meisaonier.
"Oh, yea," exclaimed the manager;
"but it is vonr name—vour name—l
want; it wifl draw crowds to my thea
ter."
"And how large is it you wish this
curtain to be?"
"Ah ! we will say fifteen metres by
eighteen."
The artist hxk up a pencil and pro
ceeded to make a calculation. At last he
bxiked up and said with imperturbable
gravity:
"1 nave calculated, and find that my
pictures are valued at . 0,000 franca per
metre. Your curtain, therefore, will
cost you just 21,600,000 francs. Rut
that is not all. It lakes me twelve
months to paint twenty-five centimetres
of canvsa. It will, therefore, take me
just 190 veara to finish your curtain.
You should have come to me earlier,
Mouaieur; I am too old for the under
taking now. Good morning."
Till: m*-,\t hi: ut nil: dim.
' •••■ at a Krrfm TrtrlMrTla*4i la *•-
•ut S I'umlli MaaalilrrMl * Mill*
I.!•!'• I uuir ltraahi ia Jaallra.
HeiiU-iiee of death ha* jttal Ixwu tin
|xih<-tl on two men by the Dreadcn A*
hizck, tot one i f the rooat #cu*atioial
miml atrocious murder* of the century.
<n the evt-uiiig ■>( August '46 th, Ouatav
Tunger, the miller ot VogeMierg, was
smoking his after supjicr pi|>* in froul of
his null. It so* quite dark, but tke null
m still busy, for a heavy stock of corn
had to l>c ground up, and the clatter of
the machinery echoed for out < u the
hi rath leas summer night. Through tins
i>ommotion the tuiller fancual he ootild
distuiguiah aome one calling htm from be
hind In* garden hedge, and approaching
the barrier he ftniud hewn* not deceived.
Two men were standing on the other
side of the hedge, but before he could
question them Uie mtixxle of m rifle was
set iigaiuat his forehead, and a bullet
went crashing through his lira n. Am he
fell, stone dead, lua limp tiguit- was
caught, dragged over the hedge, and
thrown mto a drain which intersected
the potato field from which the aasaa
suis hai fired the fatal *hot. Ilia Isaly
had las u scarcely thus di*|*Med of, wheu
the figure of the murdered man'a work
man, Ernest Itriuhardt, appeared in the
diMr of the mill. One of the murderer*
called him.
' What do you want? Who ia it f"
demanded the Work man.
" Mr. Tuuger, conic here; 1 liave
found something," was the reply.
I'ttarlv unconscious, lu-uihardt oalleil
to his master's son, a lad of sixteen, to
have au eye to the mill, and obevcal the
fatal sninmons. As he reached the
hedge two abota were fired, and he, too,
fell a corpse. The asaa*iu then went
systematically to work to rob the bodiee,
removing eveu Uie shoes from their feet,
and rifiiug their pockets of everything
they contained. From Heinhardt's ears
eveu a couple of almost valueless ear
rings were violently torn. This task
oo m pie tod. they dug a *hallow grave
under the ledge with a spade which had
been left there by a workman that day,
and loaned their victim* it.. After filling
the grave and neatly levelling the earth
over it, they advanced to the m'lL Just
a* they net foot on the lower step, young
Tunger came to tlte door. In the dark
uca* he mistook the figure* for those of
Ilia fsUier and Heinbardt, and asked
" What hsveyoti been doing?"
" This," responded one of the mis
creants, tiring rti hi* faw.
The hid Ktaggered back with * shattered
jaw, snd a moment later, was beaten
down and literally jxmnded to death
upon the threshold. His mother and
little sister, the latter a cluld of nine,
were in one of the 1* Jrooni*. The
soiiud of the shots attracted the aiteD;
tion of the little one, who *aid to her
mother :
" Wnat noise is tliat ?"
" I do not know, child," re*j*>nded
Madame Tunger. " (kt and *€*."
The child spraug to obey, and ran into
one ot the scoundrels in tlie dark pas
*age outside the bedroom door.
" It is yon; then, nana !" she cried.
■' Kill the accnrse*! brat 1" responded
a deep voice, "while I attend to the
old woman."
Tlo-girl wa* seized aud thrust into a
nvui whose door wa* locked on her,
and, cronching there iu the darkneaa,
she heard the sotiud* of a terrible con
test in the next apartment. It was the
straggle for life of her mother. Fierce
and frightful wa* the struggle. After
filing three nltot* lUto her. the axHUNMin*
found the woman xtill clinging to life
with tlie trnaritj of despair, and oue of
them struck her over the head. Tlie
force of the stroke lx*at the unfortunate
woman down on ber knees. Then the
girl heard tier give one great shriek, and
the silence wa* ouly broken further by
the muttered eurtw-* of the murderers,
and a heavy thumping sotunL It w*
the thumping of their ride stocks, with
which the butcher* were bearing nt
Madame Tunger * hraui*. In apite
of her fright, the child preserved her
presence f mux), and appreciated the
uwraaity of identifving the murderers.
In tlie partition oi plank which ae|w
rated the room in which she wa- a
prisoner, from the one in which her
mother had met her end, was a crack,
ll was so higli up, however, that it wa*
only by standing on a chair, placed on
the tied, that she could resell it
Through it hlk- srw the men pluuJenug
the rootn. Three thousand thaler*
which her fattier kept in a bureau were
taken. Then one ol the sheet* was re
moved from the l**i ami every articie
of value altont thrown into it. Tlie
miller'* new Bandar suit, a heavy woolen
petticoat his wife had on. even a pair of
children's shoes were thrown into the
heap, and then made into# large bundle.
One man at lust took up this bundle and
stumbled off under it, while the other,
after breaking some furniture and piling
it into a pyramid in the centre of the
room threw the kerosene lamp into it,
and without waiting to sec if it would
burn, went out. The lamp only hurst,
showering a nun of burning (81 over tlie
liedatoad, which took tire, but was too
hard to continue burning long. The
house filled with xiuoke, nevertheless,
aud the child lieatiug helplessly at the
door of her prison, would have nndonbt
odly suffixated hut for her own nady
wit and bravery. Fiuding it iiu]M>Ksihle
to open the door, she managed to smash
the hx-k away with an iron bar, which
was used to aeenn- :t on the inside, and
wrapping lu-raelf in a blanket ahe
.'ought her way through the smoke into
the open air.
The murderers had dragged tbe Ixxliea
of hor mother and brother to a wixxlshed
alongside of tlie mill door, and after
throwing ttiera in had fired the structure.
The flames of this conflagration awopt
acroaa the doorway in a ahcet of Are, but
the intrepid child rushed through it with
no further injury than a few barna, aud
made her wav up the little valley in
which the mill lav, to the village shout
ing for help, 'flie aroused neighlxira
responded to the call, and a search wa*
1 made, but without definite result. No
I traces of the miller and his workmen
oonld be discovered, and the mnrderers
had vanished. Tlie only description the
child amid give of them wb that they
were large, (aiwerful men, aud that one
of them had onlv a finger and thumb on
hia left band. Tlie absence of Remhnrdt,
Ihe workmnn, directed suspicion to him.
It wax telioved that he hud nmntored
hi* master, and then, with some aaaoci
atc, made the descent Upon tlie hofioe
for the purpose of obtaining the monev
he knew to be there. In Novemlier last,
however, this theory waa disproved by
the dieeovcry of the Ixxtie* in the potato
field, far gone iu decompoaition, but still
susceptible to identification. The little
I girl had Ix-eu sent to her annt at Stutt
gart, and was now summoned to assist at
the examination. In eorniug from the
railroad to the village, her aunt hired a
vehicle from the inn at Krauthein at#
tion. This wagon was driven by Johann
Waber, a hoetler of the inn. In the
course of the examination, this man ex
hibited audi emotion that anspicion wax
aroused. Once iier attention was direct
ed to him, the child recognized him poai
' tivelv rh one of the murderers, and he
was arrested. He denounced his accom
plice at ouoe. The seooud murderer wax
j iiia employer, the owner of the Kraut
hein inn.
Tuuger it seems bad stopped at tbe
inn over night on his waa noma from
I Dresden, with the 3,000 thalere, which
TKHMB: #UJ.OO a Yoftr, in Advance.
he had ilrawu from the bank there for
the pursier of purchasing some laud, iu
his [xi—uasum I u Ihe course of a carouse
With hia boat he had exhibited tin*
money, aud the latter, whose busiuea
affsirs were eiabarraaaed, had determincil
to iMiaseas himself of it. He called
Welier to his aaoiatsucc. At first they
contemplated rffeetiug their iiurfMau
while Tuuger was at tire inn, but fear
that they would be discovered deterred
them Welier, who had lived at Fogels
Is-rg, and kuew the country well, theii
profxwed the plan which was ultimately
carried out.
Historical (sketch of liar Hold tola*.
The following is a historical sketch of
onr gold coinage:
1. I'lie double eagle, or twenty dollar
piece. Coinage of Uie double-eagle wa*
silt hoi need by the a.-t of March .td, IHSM.
Its weight ia 61ti gruina. Its tiueue-s ia
Skki. (Tliis tei hni -al form of eiprossiou
mean* that RUO parts in a 1,(100 are imri
nietal, lire ot)i*r 100 perto are alloy. I
The total coinage of the twenty dollar
gold piece up to June 30th, 1077, the
close of the 'ant fiscal year, was fHO4,-
608,440. The amount is far greater than
Unit of all the other coinage of the
United htates. If, iu fact, ia the im
|M*rtal emu of our couutrr, at once man
sive, weighty aud regal in appearance.
i. The eagle, or ten dollar piece. Its
coinage was autlrorikcd by the act of
Apnl AJ, 171*2. The weight was firwt
established by law at 270 grama, luit
was changed fort*-two year* afterwards,
by the act of June 9Mb, 1834, to 268
grain#, where it has remained ever since.
Its fineneaa wan, in the lieginuing, made
9!6{, but waa chauged by the act of
June JMh, 1834 (the same act that
lowered its weight) to WW 226. Two
years and a half subsequently its fineness
wan increased—tans than one part in a
thousand—to 900. Its weight and fine
ncan have remained tlrtia fixed to the
present day. The total coinage of this
noble piece of American monev up to
June 30th. 1877, waa *66,707,220 -lews
than one-fourteruth of the total coinage
of the imperial double eagle.
8. Tlie half-eagle, or five tlollar piece.
This elegant com linn undergone the
name vicissitude* as the eagle. lUcotu
age waa aullmritel by the same act of
April 2d, 1792. Its weight was 135
gram*, and its fineness 916|. By the
act of June 28th, ltfiM, its weight was
reduced to 64.5 grain* and itn fineueesto
899.225. By the art of January 28th,
1*47, >fs fiueuess waa raised to tiie uni
form staHilard of 900 Its weight and
tiuenewM have thus remained to our time.
Its total coinage up to the close of the
last fiscal year wan 869,412,815.
1 The qtinrter-eagie, or two dollar
and a half piece. Tlnn coin bel<ugs to
tire same family with the eagle and half
eagle. Its coinage waa authorized, its
weight and fineness oorrenpoDdingly al
tered. by tlie name act*. The statute ot
1795 made it# weight 67.6 grains aud its
fineness 9165. Its weight wan reduced
to 64.5 grains and it* fineneaa to 899.225
by the act of 1834. The act of 1837
raised it* fineness to 900. It* total coin
age up to June 30th, 1877, was $26,975,-
750.
5. The dollar. Tins pretty little gold
piece wa* created by the act of March
Id, 1849. the same act that anthoexaed
tlie coinage of the double eagle. It ha*
remained unchanged. It* weight is 25.8
and it* fmeues* 900. The total coinage
up to the cl iae of the last fiscal year wa*
*19,344,438
6. Three dollar piece. 'An act of Feb
ruary 21st. 1853, established tina irregu
lar coin. Its wviglit, 77.4 grains and its
fineucM* '.am. are of the uormal standard,
and have not been change I lor anbse
quent acta. Itn total coinage ur> to June
30th. 1877. was *! .300,082.
It t* arsrcelv necessary to atate that all
these gold coiu* are legal tender to an
nuliiuited amount. The federal statute
requires, however,that the weight should
not be materially reduced by attrition.
Thus it will lie seen that there are six
piece* of gold coinage iu the Uuibsl
States. Tlie double-eagle, the three
dollar piece, the dollar piece—all of lot# r
coinage liave not been change-1 in weight
or fineness. One of the earliest acta of
Cougreea antbonz-d Uie coinage of the
eagle, the half-eagle and the quarter
eagle. They remained of the same
weight and fineness during more than
forty year*. By the act of June 28th,
1834, "the weigh* and fineness were both •
materially reduced.
Two year* and a half subsequently, by
the act of January 18th, 1837, the fine
ness was iuci cased by lea# than oDe part '
in a thousand. Tlie standard of the
weight and fineness has remained the
same ever since for all gold coin. The j
fineness in nine part* of pure jpld and ,
one part of alloy, or 900 parts in 1,00(\
aa it ia generally exprcnaed. The stand
ard of weight, including alloy with the
gold, ia 25.8 grain* to the dollar; the
double-eagle, is twenty times that (516
grain*); the eagle, ten time# (238 grains;
the half-eagle, five tiraea tl29grainsi;
the three-dollar piece, three timea, (77.4
grains); the quarter-eagle, two and a
half timea that (64.3 grains).
The question is sometime* asked, of
what ia the alloy made? In gold coin it
was at first a componud of silver and
copper. It wa* forbidden by statute
that the alloy should lie more than half j
silver. It is now nearly all oopper,
owing to advance* in the art of assaying ]
and improved methods in coinage. The
total amount of gold coinage up to Jnne
30. 1877, was $983,159,695.
Be Social.
We are social I wings, and Uie home
circle, alone, however attractive, will
not satisfy. The old-faahioned singing
school, the husking party, the lycenm,
the grange, the Good Templars lodge,
i or division of the Sons of Temperauee,
whatever drawa together the young men i
and women, the bov* and girla, for i
development of mind and character and
for social enjoyment, is"to be welcometf.
All the Iwtter, too, if the parent# can
renew their yonth, or enter heartily 1
into the young people'* enjoyment.
There ia but oue object in the world
more pitiable thau Uie adult man iff 1
woman who feels no thrill of sympathy .
over the happiness of the votiug, aud
that moat pitiable of all is the old head
on young shoulders, too diguifiod to ac
cept ttie keen wisdom of Uie old Roman
poet, " It ia pleasant to he foolish some
times." Work aud nlay each have their
time, and advancing years briug no
pang* for the innocent sport* and enjoy
ment* of the youthful days long ;ast
We grow old all too soon, but if the
heart ia freah, and in sympathy with the
world around ua, it matters litUe how
we count our years. The J/onteetead.
A Revolutionary Tombstone.
A correspondent of the Woreeeter
(Mass.) Spy has copied as follows the
inscription upon aa ancient slate alab in
a cemetery at Westchester, Vi.:
"In Mem of William French, Sou to
Mr. Nathaniel French ; Who waa shot
at Westminster, March ye 18th 1773, by
the hand of the Oruel Ministerial tools of
Georg ye 3d ; in ye Oorthouae, at a 11 a
Clock at Night; in the 2nd year of his
Age.
" Hi-rv William French hi* tkxlv lie*.
For Murder bis Blood for veugeauce ones.
King Oeorg ths Third hi* Tory crew
th* with a bwl hi* head #hot threw.
For Eibertv and hi* Country# Good,
he Lost hU life hi# Deare*t blood."
It i* said by men who have sailed a
mil# a minute on an ice boat that the
1 sensation It like felling from e building.
NUMBER 10.
FARM, (JtKDF.fI AID HOtMKHOLD.
A 11 Mir I r*lUf Vsr*.
flunking t tbe rani of a jioLltry fan
cier a few Java ago. I W pleased with
iiia beti-tnmae, not because H waa the
lin.-ai I ever MW, Iml baoeuae of ita per
fect simplicity. Aa be waa a man of
abundant means, ami lit* plane ia near a
fashionable raaort, there waa a toiopta
tiou for a timer building than oilier peo
ple, but be preferred to art a good ex
aiuple for hi* poaMT neighbors. This
buildiug war framed, <4 convenient aire
for two flocks of about twenty fowla
iwrb; Iriar.bol onlaide and inaide of tba
frame with uatdiei boards, aud with a
large window uu the euutb aide. It wa*
Terr warm inside, even when the air
•ratable war ueerlv at freestog point.
On tlie inaule ot the will a plank waa
■piked over to go down a foot into the
ground, all around U>a bwilding, which
prevented the • nitride inoiature from
coming under tbe buildiug, and a* tbr
building inaide waa rained autae indie*
witb earth and dry loam, H wraa at all
timet a dry plane to wallow in. A tbe
lwutae waa for large fowl*, tbe moat* i
werr low, and a apace waa brft where tbe
beua eould ataml on the ground all
night, matead of rooatiug U they pre- ,
ferred, which wane did. I noticed the
fence between tbe jamltry yard* wa
boarded up autuv three feet high, with
abort picketa sliove that. ITiia prevent
ed tbe cock* from fighting through the
fence. The whole art angement* ot bmkl- i
iug aud rarda were neat enough far a i
geutlemau'a couotrr place, aud yet not
too extravagant for any farmer to copy. ,
The yard a were *et with pluai and beach
tree*" aud the owner aaid he bad no diffi
cnlty in getting abundant crops of tlic
finest frtuta every year, which waa a
lutudaome profit in iter If upon the coat (
of keeping tlie fowl. — Wwtoa Journal. >
II MM-kal* II lata.
To Mac BOOT* WaTxarxoor. -Tel
low beeawax, Burgundy pitch and tur ■
' peutine, of each two ounces ; boiled lin
seed oil, one pint. Apply to tbe boot
with tbe lunula lief ore the fire till well
saturated.
MlUl. —Milk absolutely supphreerery
requisite- for the body, and enables a
young oalf to grow into a heifer and a
iMtbv into a thriving child. It ia a
nxxfel food—ln fact, it ia the moot per
fei-t that exiata in nature. Let pen-tits
realise Una, anil toe. image it* naa in the
family.
POCLTMI ** Foon.—For aWe use,
fowls that are killed directly Is# m a free
range, where they have been well fad
for some time previously, and, baviug
taken plenty of exercise, are in perfect
health, are to be preferred to those which
have been kept in a close coop, in #•
nectvm with their own excrements and a
polluted atmosphere.
To DumxuruH BCTTKH rnow Ouao-
Xiwuvxr. Artificial butter no* ao
nearlv rceetnblea the genuine article that
it ia difficult to dwtiDguiah one from the
other. M. Jail lard submits the follow
ing plan : When the t uitter ia placed be
tween two slips of glass the animal tats
appear under the microscope as shores
cent crystallization* Pure batter ia seen
i only aa' fatty globules.
I JKLLIBK, —In making jeihee of apples,
jdam*, pearlies or apricots, peel, remove
the stones or cores, "ut in pieces, cover
with water, and bofl gently Uil well
cooked ; then strain the juice gently
through a jelly beg and add half a pint
of sugar tu a pint of juiee, boil until it
ropes from the spoon, or from fifteen to
twenty muiute*. In making rasnlierry
je.lv use one-third currants and twy>-
third* raspberries.
IV rail lies CI • sills.
P. H., Bsytnoudville. writes: " 1
would like to tudc through the column*
of your |p*r if cattle shed their teeth
the same as the horse; ii ao, at what age f"
Beply. - Cattle, as wall as wellae other
animals vrith teeth, shed their first teeth
before they reach maturity. Tba matu- .
rity of an animal ia frequently considered
to be complete when tlie dentition tbe
comes permanent. In horaad cattle the
first twvi orulral permanent incisors ap
pear wt the age of twenty months or two
rear*; tlie next two appear at three years; ;
tlie next two at four, and the last two, t
which are the eoruer ones, at about five
years old. The first aud second perras
i neut molar teeth appear at tlie age of
two yean, an additional oue oO each jaw
■pjicars every year after np to the sixth
year, wlieu the mouth is full. As the
11term*ticnt tc ih appear, the milk or de
ciduous teeth drop out, or are force. 1 out
by the new ones. After tlie sixth year
tie teeth Vgm to wear down, aud the..
' amount of wear, in ordinary cases, i* a
guide to the age of tin* animal. When
sheep or cattle are pastured upon sandv
laud this test ia deceptive, aa the teeth
sear down faster than they would other
i wise do.—.Vcic York Time*.
T%* Well fsr Wswrp. u4 Ptasts.
The best soil for moat flower*, aud
principallv for vonug plants and tbe
seed-tied, ia a mellow loo® containing
enough aaud to prevent its baking after
watering it. A good many ban- the idea
that seed will grow moat anywhere and
with any treatment. Mostly tbe seeds
are planted too deep, so they either rot
in the eold, damp soil for tbe want of
warmth necessary to their germination,
or alter germination, perish before the
. tender shoots can reach the aurfaon. To
preveut this, sow Tour flower-seeds in a
oohl frsuie, box, or pot, and tranaplant
as soon sa the young plants attain their
proper siae. Transplant when tba weath
er becomes warm and settled.
A Free City ef (onstanttnepte.
Constantinople under Turkish rule
became the centre of a vast system of
plunder and oonqneet Tba city was
enriched br the spoils of Europe and ,
Asm. A large multitude gathered •
there. But its legitimate commerce
has never been large. Tbe race
which held this golden key erf the
world's commerce baa never been able
to open the store-honse. They were
like barbarians in possession of a com
plicated machine. The aultans have
simjilv wrung their wealth from the
plundered peasantry, and lived genera
tion after generation in their rich pala
ce* on the Bosphorus. No building, no
work of art, no machine or invention,
so far as we are aware, has ever been
discovered or constructed in Constanti
nople bv a Turk. The Greek has done
all The race has basked in the rich
sunlight of that deKciour climate, and
has enjoyed all the luxuries and bean
ties of the Golden Horn for more tbwn
fonr centuries, has seen the current of
the world's history flow by. and has ;
never contributed a single blessing or
favor to mankind. Ontside of the capi
tal, its dominion has been to Christiailih
, a onrse and a burden; inside, it has per- '
mitted all things to remain as they were.
AA a free cjtv, it might, like Venice of j
old, or Hamburg in later times, be the ,
centre of a world's commerce. The j
Greek has an aptitude for trade, and,
no doubt, the merchants of all oountries I
would gather there. The burdens that
have hitherto rested ou all production
and industrv in tbe Turkish empire
gpuld then ou removed, and we might
see a new centre of civilisation where
Slavic barbarism baa reigned ao long.
But this will not be till the empire of
the race of Osman has come to ita end,
and that must be yet in a future, not
remote, but not immediate, —Htu) York
Dntt.
TV Twin*.
Mlsnt wharf! tike Ood . blessing ••-
bswtldsrad earth'
('earfna- oonlM-vttb §b*T end r*o" •
.1 tWr hirtfc '
Wutidron* cm4roii, whil*-wtnxl bwaM".
with a wofdl— atystorv.
HmHbc with tbam *•* *nd jtaimM of U>*
fkr-og arses."
KrtfUv swiftly —dgwn w serth-wkT twing
i ti Uwar* til aakw>w t
IWehißf out t!t! Ikkado U> Uiucli as *h
radiate* Of • Throw!
I -''<;• • •
Bltant Wut ' going -going out Mmwwl oar
Hearing vtUi team so nvh swwfusM ssaros
• km* tesv awals toaek.
Hwfftty swiftly— skill wa strnggla for a little
ISM or more,
' fi. .we their tkta daar footprints vanish, Isaring
ourv swa tba shore! v
t i /-j- . "
'< si uil j calmly wtfils oar pulses beat to ev'ry
•tree tuna,
On their waves eur aauilght Uenblaa, sad our
day grew* dim si nam !
imwkrd on weed- ending svwr at Ood"s foal
Aodl ! * Ah, will H
1 ' Merge ttiss* weary fragment. Into His aureus
Rtaratty?
-Awr York Kvmttuj Pott.
Items ef latereeL
Mooring ia now politely described an
indulging ia ahead music.
' Patrolmen ia the favorite illuminate*
] in many French households.
About 20,000 Italians annually immi
grate to tbi* country to settle,
i Turkey ■ expeneaee ia that iron dad
fleets do not amount to shocks
/ Every cloud, and every proepmwna
' pocket-1 H k, has a silver lming.
i Dr. Poternmnn, the leading geogra
pher of the world, places Htanley foee
moat among all explorer*,
i A lemdraa paper nttimatea that daring
tbe latter 200 days of 1877 that hnmau
blood flowed at fee rate of forty gallon*
'an hour. *
A Chicago German, who wanted to
, add a poetecript to a letter after ha had
• mailed it, waa fonnd trying to dig up
' the lamp post
A paper speak* of a home that eat*
meat Harry aaya that be has never
seen a borer actually eat meat, but ha
' seen ooe running for a stake,
f IJent. Flipi er, the only colored jrea
uate of West Point, ia to be *pj*iinte.l
mibterv inatruetor of the colored brandi
af t(w g^ricultural and military college
ipf Texas,
This country imported from Japan,
last year, through the port rf Han
' Prsnmaco, 4.100,000 pounds of tea.
From China wa imported only 936,000
pounds.
A patent has been takes out upon al
taokt everything at value, but there ia a
fortune waiting tar the man who patent*
a boot-jack that will kill two piomw
rata at ooe time
An Indiana farmer mused a -WO-pound
hog and found him. after thirty-five
days, under a bug that bad fallen ami
.sgngbt him under iC Tbe bog lived,
but he only weighed 300 pounds wbeu
found.
" Why didnt yon put an a clean col
lar before you left hamaF' called out an
impertinent voung fop loan omnibus
driver. " 'dense your mother hadn't
seal heme my wwabing," was the extic
gOMhing rapfy.
There was a shower of worms iu
Michigan, one day recently. Some day*
previously there waa a shower of Ash
And now, it Nature understands her
busine**, a shower of fch-hooka ia next
on tba programme.
The total dividends paid last year by
mining nompamcs, banks, insurance and
expaaaa coaspaniew, and other oommer
cial eaterprises on the Pacific coast, not
including the Central Pacific Railroad,
was 894,366,060, an tucreaaeofgl .350,000.
A deserted life qua< grieved by the
!inartlrsam at the Indian who had
only a few mouths previously taken her
to hut wigwam, drowned barwlf. Before
bar stueidr, she formally and elaborately
cursed him. Hie Indian belief ia that
sorb a curse ia a paten*.
The Times' Fwieaoneapoudeut writes
that the French govevumeat will allow
1 imairan rtfiemen to about in France
daring UM uitematioaal exhibition. Tbe
Franco law against the introduction of
wrapons la very ntrirt, but tbe American
riflemen will telly be called upon on
suding to justify their nationality.
A Frenchman has analysed the dual
end debrift of tin- ftreets of Pans and
Fkxnmor, aiv! lias (untivl that thirty-flve
per cent, of thai collected from the roa.l
- is iron given <M by horses' shoe*,
and that fro*} thirty to forty per cent
<rf that taken (roos the oidetrolkais glue.
Ho proposes to utilixe both tbe iron and
the glue.
In the harbor of Man Francisco a wave
struck a fishing boat, and overboard
went two disci plea of Ike Walton. BOBS
parti** who bapprued to be in a boot
close by weal to their assistance, and
rescued the half-drowned pair. On be
ing questioned bow the accident occur-,
rod/ ther replied "We didn't capaixe;
we only "went down to see why the fish
wouldn't hike."
Oawvgo, N". T. t baa the champion
noaroamtroHat ia the person ot George
Psokham, who not long ago walked
twalvs mike* to Fulton without awaking,
and who the other morning awoke to
find himself TuIW dreesed and aboard
the Midland train a boat to start for New
York. He dreamed that he was going
to California, and waa awakened by the
jar of the locomotive as it conpled on
the train, . •
John Bright wrote, lately, a note in
which ooenmsd this * passage : M lf
children at school can be made to under-
T intend how fl is just and noble to be hu
mane even Wfwliat we term inferior ani
mals, it will do much to give them a
higher character and tone through life.
There ia nothing meaner than barbar
ous and cruel treatment of the dumb
crroturee who cannot answer us or re
sent the misery which te ao often need
lrroly tnfiietedf upon them."
ror coax.
!£::
i Tip, top.
Popcorn
"Out of the pan.
Into thsfin,
Borstrng and bonncing.
Higher and higher.
White as new snow.
Telle* sa gold.
You'd better he patient
Till it is cold.
King Victor Emmanuel was especially
fond of a light At the battle of Goito,
in 1849, be charged at the head of a regi
ment, an Austrian battery, and showed
tbe ssme courage daring the eighteen
hours' strife at Novars. On traveling
one day in a'carriage without eeoort, to
his chateau of Polenxo, be fonnd a num
ber of aeuJanxMK exchanging shots with
brigiunL. Vthr Emmanuel seixed the
oarbiue with which he traveled, and aid
ed the geudapmee, two of whom were
killed at hit wide. The brigands who
' were not killed finally fled. The officer
• hi command of the gendarmes was much
astonished on learning that the king was
his new recruit.
A Mighty Project.
Several ladies: They were talking
ear neatly and loudly, and apparently
rent interests were at stake. ,
I "No," aaid one, "I k> not approve
of your plan. I should make it larger
j and oover it with silk."
r •" That would be tlie maliest foolish
i Qeea," aaid another, emphatically, aa she
aa* dawn her teaoup with a bang. "I
should follow the plan already begun
upon, MMI nee velvet, ' True, it will cost
more, but one might us well have a
thing right."
I ** I agree with pane of yon;" chimed
in a third party. "I have a design,
which, if followed out, would surpass
any of those yit proposed."
Thus t hey talked. What are they dis
cussing thought the listener as he eaugh *
now and then oweh words as "plan."
" deaig*." ** " Can it be a new insti
tution o! learning, the formation of a
. JZ&SiSS- ixfdTiSZu.